Buy land cheap, get 3 free serfs with every Hectare.

[formercia]

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE53J4RS20090420

Pakistan offers farmland to foreign investors
Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:24pm EDT

By Amena Bakr

DUBAI (Reuters) - Pakistan is offering one million acres of farmland, protected by a special security force, for lease or sale to countries seeking to secure their food supplies, an official from the ministry of finance said on Monday.

Gulf Arab countries, mainly reliant on food imports, have been seeking farmland in developing nations to secure supplies and have expressed interest in Pakistan's offer.

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"We are offering one million acres of land across Pakistan for investors who want to buy or lease the land for a long period of time," said Waqar Ahmed Khan, the Federal Minister of Investment in Pakistan.

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I wonder if the locals living on the land in question come as serfs, or do they get hauled off to so resettlement camp?

[cliffordu]

1. I'm going immediately. Then I can own my own anti-aircraft gun.

And my own set of Claymore mines.

[BeFree]

3. You will need them.

Pakistan is selling farm land to outsiders while they are on our payroll?

[Canuckistanian]

2. Do I have to provide the serfs with medical and dental?

Because I hadn't figured that into my business plan.

Also, do I have to feed them or can they live on bugs and weeds? My backers want a 43% share and I can't spare the cash outlay.

[underpants]

4. The obvious question

are they HOT serfs?

[cliffordu]

5. Well...

:rofl:

[Arctic Dave]

6. "It's really a win-win situation," said Khan.

Famous last words anyone?
Sounds like a great way to funnel more money to Pakistan's military under the pretense of stability for farming adventures. I didn't realize that Pakistan had such a vast expanse of unused land.

[Hannah Bell]

10. 206 people/km2. They'd be better off giving it to their own people to farm.

[Art_from_Ark]

11. Maybe their own people can't farm it

Pakistan is a rugged, mostly dry country. It would be tough to farm in a lot of places there if the infrastructure isn't in place. Maybe the plan is to get foreign investors to develop a farming infrastructure, who knows?

[Hannah Bell]

12. i wonder how pakistanis managed to feed themselves before there was

"infrastructure"?

you think they're going to sell "rugged" land to globacorps? doubt it. more likely prime ag land. unless they're going to grow poppies.

[valerief]

7. One catch. They must used Monsanto seeds. Poppy seeds. nt

[Kaleva]

8. Several countries have done something like this.

[seemslikeadream]

9. Serfs....did somebody say serfs?

[formercia]

13. Hang Ten

Make your bones.

[seemslikeadream]

14. i and i formercia